Learn How StudentTracker 3.0’s Dashboard Will Help Secondary School Users Measure Performance
Transfer enrollment is making a comeback, surpassing 2020 figures. The National Student Clearinghouse Research Center’s fall 2024 Transfer Enrollment and Pathways report reveals that transfer enrollment, which comprises 13% of non-freshmen undergraduates, grew for the third straight year.
The ability to transfer between institutions provides students with greater flexibility in their postsecondary educational pathways. The Transfer Enrollment and Pathways report, which replaces the previous Transfer and Progress report series, finds that college transfer enrollment is now 7.9% greater than in the fall of 2020.
"The growth in transfers this fall is a further indication that students are adjusting postsecondary goals in response to changing education and labor market conditions," said Doug Shapiro, Executive Director of the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. “That’s good news, especially for those who are able to return from stopouts by finding colleges that better meet their needs.”
Nearly 500,000 students transferred from a two-year to a four-year institution this past fall, a number that is now comparable to fall 2020 (-2,300, -0.5%). Although this remains the most common pathway for transfer students, the share of all transfer students that move from a two-year to a four-year institution declined 3.5 percentage points from fall 2020 to fall 2024.
Additional report highlights include:
Community College Transfer Enrollment: This past fall, 390,000 students transferred into a community college, an increase of 13.5% from the fall of 2020. However, total community college enrollment still has not recovered from pandemic declines (-52,300, -1.5% from fall 2020).
Continuing Transfer Students: The fall of 2024 saw the second straight year of enrollment growth for continuing transfer students — those who were enrolled at a different institution in the spring or summer term immediately prior.
View the complete Transfer Enrollment and Pathways report.
"The growth in transfers this fall is a further indication that students are adjusting postsecondary goals in response to changing education and labor market conditions. That’s good news, especially for those who are able to return from stopouts by finding colleges that better meet their needs."
Doug Shapiro
Executive Director, National Student Clearinghouse Research Center
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Learn How StudentTracker 3.0’s Dashboard Will Help Secondary School Users Measure Performance
The National Student Clearinghouse’s StudentTracker 3.0 is almost here, ready to deliver new functionality and insights. StudentTracker 3.0 features an interactive dashboard with visualizations that allow users to see and explore three key performance indicators (KPIs) as soon as they log on.
- Enrollment
- The dashboard’s visualizations show student enrollment patterns, allowing secondary school leaders to quickly see how many graduates are enrolled in higher education. The dashboard also indicates dual enrollment rates (students who took college classes during high school), a new outcome available with StudentTracker 3.0.
- Persistence & Retention
- Users can also track how many of their high school graduates return to their higher education institution in year two, whether they transfer to another institution, or if they stop out. Counselors can use this data to advise students more effectively on the optimal academic pathways.
- Completers
- Users can see the completion outcomes of their graduates in real-time. The dashboard shows students’ credentials, including bachelor’s degrees, associate degrees, and certificates. As certificates become more popular, the dashboard will allow users to view the number of students who earned certificates, the total number of credentials, and the highest credentials earned.
Users can interact with their dashboard data by choosing the high school cohort for any outcome they want to see and using breakdowns and filters to see outcomes for different combinations of the demographic data elements. StudentTracker 3.0’s in-app help will guide users through using its dashboards and other features and makes it easy to get questions answered instantly.
“While StudentTracker 3.0 will bring some useful new changes, we have ensured the things users loved about StudentTracker for High Schools will remain,” according to Michele Gralak, Senior Product Manager, Learner Insights who oversees StudentTracker 3.0. “The focus will remain on the three KPIs crucial for gauging learner outcomes: enrollment, retention and persistence, and graduation.”
The Clearinghouse will begin migrating secondary subscribers (high schools, districts, consortiums, and state education departments) to StudentTracker 3.0 in late summer 2024. In the meantime, you can learn more about StudentTracker 3.0.
“While StudentTracker 3.0 will bring some useful new changes, we have ensured the things users loved about past versions will remain. The focus will remain on the three KPIs crucial for gauging learner outcomes: enrollment, retention and persistence, and graduation.”
Michele Gralak
Senior Product Manager, Learner Insights
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